The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 22
For a few terrible moments she thought that the rock was bare, and that her journey had been to no purpose.
Who acts: princess, rock, journey · What happens: think, be, journey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, rock, journey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 moments | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moments | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moments | amod |
| 4 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moments | amod |
| 5 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thought | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 bare | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rock | det |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bare | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bare | cop |
| 12 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 purpose | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 purpose | cc |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 purpose | mark |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 journey | nmod:poss |
| 17 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 purpose | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 purpose | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 purpose | cop |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 purpose | case |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 purpose | det |
| 22 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bare | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | princess | moment | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the rock | bare property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | princess's journey | to no purpose | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | journey | princess | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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